Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

—Soren Kierkegaard

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

—Soren Kierkegaard

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

—Soren Kierkegaard

Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action. . . . The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented — and then do nothing.

—Soren Kierkegaard

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.

—Courtney Summers in Some Girls Are

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

—William James

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

—Carl von Clausewitz